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Look in /contrib it's already there.
On May 20, 2010, at 6:23 PM, Mark Robson <markxr@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 May 2010 23:16, Ryan Daum <ryan@thimbleware.com> wrote:
> I personally would love to see Cassandra add the concept of a read-
> only 'proxy' node which acts like the embedded ready only mode (Java
> 'fat client') but sits as a stand alone server. It would know the
> the entire ring and watch Gossip and thus be able to direct requests
> to the most appropriate node. This way thrift clients would just
> connect to localhost, and it would in turn handle pooling and
> balancing connections.
>
>
> I agree that would be a very desirable feature; app servers could
> have a local Cassandra node which handled cluster operations.
> Certainly makes things easier.
>
> It may also reduce network overhead as things could go directly to/
> from the nodes they needed to rather than via a third node.
>
> Mark